Published 11:38 IST, November 12th 2019
US Nurse adopts homeless man to help him get a heart transplant
US: A miracle through a chance encounter.Nurse adopts homeless man in need of Heart Transplant and becomes his guardian so that he can get on the donors list.
- World News
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Nurse "adopts' homeless man so that he can have a heart transplant. 57-year-old Nurse adopts a homeless man and becomes his guardian so that he can have a heart transplant
New Heart, New Home!
Getting a heart transplant is a hard enough task, one has to wait in a long waiting list. Jonathan Pinkard needed a heart transplant but due to him being homeless and no care system and people to look after him, he was disqualified from the waiting list.
Things looked bleak for Jonathan, an office clerk from Warm Springs, Georgia who lived in a men's shelter. Without a steady place, he would not be able to get on the donors' list and get a new heart.
A miracle in the making.....
4 months after getting the dreadful news that Jonathan would need a new heart, he found himself back in the hospital, but this time his assigned nurse was Lori Wood. Wood who has been a nurse for 35 years said that she had never done something like this in the past and that usually she keeps her personal life separate from her professional life. Pinkard was only her patient for two days when she was left stunned by his predicament and made the remarkable offer that could one day save Pinkard's life.
Pinkard said he was moved by the fact that someone that he had known for only 2 days would do this for him, to him it was almost like a dream. Pinkard had nothing more than a cellphone to his name when Lori decided to bring him home, where she lives with one of her sons, Austin Wood. They stay at a farmhouse in Hogansville, which is about an hour south of Atlanta.
Pinkard became homeless after his living arrangements with a relative came to an end, he has been on his own since 2014. Pinkard who suffers from mild Autism learned that he needed a heart in 2018 after experiencing a shortness of breath and passed out at work.
Good News!
Pinkard was able to go through heart surgery on the first of August and is expected to be able to get back to work soon. Pinkard claims that Wood has been like a second mother to him ever since his heart surgery.
Updated 12:34 IST, November 12th 2019